He’s a karate instructor, founder of a local newspaper and a neighborhood organizer. If Joe Lopez can’t solve your problem, he’ll adopt a profession that can.
After years of haggling, housing desegregation is finally a done deal in New York City’s unofficial sixth borough. Five years after 200 poor families moved out of the projects and…
African-Americans have been making history in New York for centuries, but you’d never know it from the roster of city landmarks and historic districts. A beauty-biased landmarks commission is to…
When Kevin Heldman went undercover at Woodhull’s psychiatric unit, he wanted to experience how low-income people were treated. In 179 hours as a mental patient, he found little care and…
Students at El Puente Academy met after school for months looking into ways to transform Williamsburg’s stagnant economy. Their solution, an open-air market, capitalizes on local talents and needs.
A coalition of outer-boro neighborhood groups is hoping to block the merger of two giant national waste-hauling companies, saying the move would overwhelm the city.
